• rapchee@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    bitter and dry?? what do you do to them? maybe they are old? i don’t think i ever had ot like that. i just microwave them for a few minutes, depending on quantity

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      17 hours ago

      Idk man you’re right, cooked broccoli is still good even with the pubes but have you ever tried to eat a raw piece of broccoli by itself? I prefer raw veggies and the pubes are just intolerable to me personally. Even cooked I think the stalk is better but definitely when it’s raw I can’t stand the pubes.

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        16 hours ago

        trauma dump incoming, feel free to skip

        While my parents were forcing me to do hard manual labor as punishment for not going through school fast enough, that hard manual labor consisting of me lifting boulders and carrying them around the yard into various piles, they also had a compost bin.

        On one cold winter day, I realized they had forgotten to feed me, and I was starving. And in the compost bin, uh, from the warmth and heat, from the compost, a broccoli sprout had sprouted and seeded and grown. It had been left alone over the winter, and sticking up out of that broccoli sprout was a beautiful, delicious looking head of broccoli, and I was able to snap that off and eat it as my only breakfast that day.

        That broccoli was honestly so fucking delicious.

        I still love broccoli to this day. I’ll eat it raw, I’ll eat it cooked, I’ll eat it baked, I’ll eat it mashed into a paste.

        You have no idea how good broccoli can be when you’re hungry, tired, freezing, cold, and bleeding.